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This page contains a humorous domestic dialogue between Mr. and Mrs. Tellit about handwriting experts. Mrs. Tellit has read newspaper accounts of expert witnesses using handwriting analysis to identify document forgers in legal cases. Mr. Tellit dismissively suggests the "trick" is simply reading the signature—entirely missing the point of forensic handwriting examination. Mrs. Tellit, exasperated by his deliberate obtuseness, threatens to leave. The satire targets masculine smugness and willful ignorance: Mr. Tellit represents the type of man who confidently reduces complex expertise to obvious triviality, then refuses to genuinely engage with his wife's attempts to explain. The joke's punch relies on readers recognizing that handwriting experts actually analyze letter formations, pressure, and habits—not just signatures—to authenticate documents in fraud cases, which were newsworthy during this period. The rest of the page contains period advertisements and unrelated content.

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d d MR. TELLIT ON HANDWRITING EXPERTS, jon on erry MBS. TELLIT had been reading ‘And then you'll go to the theatre LITHIA WATER the fashion page of the news-|and lose interest in the play because paper, but inadVertently her eyes! you are trying to figure out the writing is gratifying, satisfying and had strayed to the first page, where! on the stage snowflakes and see what 2 3 = glowing head-lines told of the contra-|connection it has with the freckled 4 healthful. This greatest of 4 ~ ull table waters is enjoyed y dictory feats of some expert wit-| past of the heroine.” . as by the youngclub: nesses in a case that hinged largely Mrs. Tellit rose from her chair and aeeitles y 9 ithe y on chirography. | sniffed, dM by hi S “I don't see how they do it,” “Mr. Tellit, I am going home to ful stimulant, as by his “ she commented. mother if you continue this heartless elders who fight against e “Do what?” asked Mr. Tellit. | badinage of yours.” } gout and rheumatism. “Why, how these men can take But Mr. Tellit only picked up the a person’s letter and read it and tell, paper she had thrown to the floor and who wrote it,” she answered. settled himself to read it, with a-sar- “Easy enough," asserted Mr.|donic “ Huh! Tellit. It’s a cinch. All they've rE i got to do is to look at the end and see| Get strength f bone and muscle. purify thy eae ‘ system, with Abbott's, the Original Angostura whose name is signed to it | Bitters. Drugg “Oh, but that isn’t the way these people do at all. They take a letter suspicious thing that some one has written in some- | man who says. body else's handwriting, and has ad-,'! told you so," remarked the observer dressed to the wrong person, and|0f events and things. “He never seems i person, and}to come out with a new hat after clec- signed the other person's name to it, | tion."—Yonkers Statesman. and then they tell exactly who wrote | it, and why he did it,” explained Mrs.) 1 se¢ the scoundrel in your face," Tellit. exclaimed the angry man “Who told you all that?” de- hat,” replied the other calmly, manded her husband. si personal FeectCn a ccd ht ON, 6 . Bat 2 en the angry man figured thi: Nobody told me. It is here im ne was even angricr.—Chicago Post the paper. “Are they putting such stuff as that in the advertisements now? 3 | “Goodness me! A person would think to hear you talk that I never read anything but advertisements.” ears “Huh! Do you?” “Yes, Ido. I have been i Few people know the {this evening all about the peni f db f canal and the way they are going to| Comfort an eauty ol immigrate the plains of Nevada, and | perfect natural skin. the silver question, and the k: yacht, and—and—well, lots of thing: Have you used Pears’ And I just couldn't help wondering ? how they do all those wonderful] soap things with people's handwriting.” Sold all over the world, | “Of course you couldn't, i the bland rejoinder of Mr. Tellit. “Of I stopped in at a bargain-sale couren you colnet. ‘You had andes elle—" Did you sce anything that In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Pennsylvania, sur- that st was'some kind of # fad that ioolced real cheap? you could spring on your club the| Nell—"Yes; several men & IETWENEIIE|| rounded by delightful resorts at Stroudsburg and through- Rext time it met, and that you could | their wives."—-Philadelplia Le TENeTie| out the Delaware Valley; an Ideal region for spring and take the secretary's report of the last | <= = summer. A_ beautifully illustrated book describing meeting and tell all their fortunes by | A SPRING AND SUMMER TONIC these resorts and containing a fascinating love story entitled » For it, didaeyoune inne Go To THE Reasons of State,” will be sent on receipt of 4 cents.in stamps. ad :no:sucha thing: “Well, that’s right. D Yor Address T. W. LEE, General Passenger Agent, Lackawanna Rail- ought to be ald thet this Se ot oF road, New York City. experting on handwriting is no wo-| Western North Carolina man's occupation. It takes the hard-| eo working mind of an able-bodied man a * to handle it properly. When a hand- writing expert spreads out a few scraps The Land of the Sky of paper before him, and pulls his AND ~| magnifying glass on the outfit, and solemnly announces that the aforesaid) Spphire Country o | | | Glorious Mountains scraps are part of a two-hundred-page letter written by a tall, dark man at “ ” 6:39 a. m., by the light of a tallow| A NATURAL PARADISE. At all candle, in a building without modern | times bed year a pleasant spot, full of life, of improvements, on a frosty morning, color and enjoyment, rich with possibilities for amy D | health and recreation, For temperature and it is reasonable to presume that such | climate it is unexcelled, Reached by the PUBLISHED APRIL 11 a science is immeasurably removed Fi = |from the sphere of woman, isn't it?”) Southern Railway “Can they do that?” 5 “Can they? Why, woman, they | 24 eee ee oes alas tn lew than One of the finest special ise can take the dots of an assorted lot of i's and scan them for a day or two at e sues of the year; a great op- |fifty dollars an hour and hand in a| Write for descriptive book of the “Land o! 3 : voluminous decision that shows just | the Sky,” mailed free upon application to any portunity for advertisers to how the wind was blowing when the | *8ent of the Southern Railway, reach the wide, wide world. i's were dotted, and whether or not|NEW YORK OFFICES: 271 and 1185 Broadway the dotter was married.” ALEX. S. THWEATT, “Isn't that cute?” exclaimed Eastern Passenger Agent. Mrs. Tellit. ‘I'm going to look it up, |W. A. TURK, S. H. HARDWICK, Advertising Pages Close April 2d and study all I can about it, and| Pass'r Traffic Mgr. Gen'l Pass'r Agent. then "— WASHINGTON, D. C. comicbooks.com ,